A lawyer from the U.S. State Department appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week and defended Israel’s right to starve Palestinians trapped inside Gaza and said Tel Aviv is “not legally obligated” to allow humanitarian agencies—like the UN agency for Palestine (UNRWA)—to operate inside the enclave.
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AI WE OWN YOU: U.S. TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SPEED UP DEPORTATIONS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS WHO APPEAR ‘PRO-HAMAS’
The U.S. State Department is introducing Artificial Intelligence to help in its “Catch and Revoke” plan targeting foreign students who appear to be sympathetic to Hamas, according to a report.
BLACKLISTED: PENTAGON, STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN PRIVATE SINCE START OF WAR
Internal emails among officials inside the Pentagon and U.S. State Department showed concerns about war crimes by the IDF in Gaza in the early stages of the war and that the rising death toll inside the enclave would hurt relations between Washington and other countries in the Middle East.
NULAND WANTS U.S. TO HELP UKRAINE HIT TARGETS DEEP INSIDE RUSSIA
Victoria Nuland, the former under-secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department, said in an interview Sunday that the U.S. needs to permit Ukraine to strike Russian territory with weapons provided by Washington.
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR U.S. TO END WEAPONS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFTER LEAKED STATE DEPARTMENT MEMO
The U.S. should immediately end its weapon support for Israel after reports emerged of a leaked State Department memo that said the agency does not believe Israel when it says it has been in compliance with international law in Gaza, according to DAWN, the human rights group called Democracy for the Arab World Now.
IRAN SAYS U.S. GAVE ISRAEL ‘GREEN LIGHT’ TO ATTACK CONSULATE
Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, said Monday that the U.S. gave Israel the “green light” before the deadly attack on Terran's consulate in Damascus and said Washington should also be held responsible.
U.S. DENIES ISRAEL IS WITHHOLDING AID FROM PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Matt Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said Monday that Washington has not found Israel to be in violation of international humanitarian law as it carries out its genocide in Gaza.
VICTORIA NULAND TO RETIRE FROM STATE DEPARTMENT, WILL TEACH AT COLUMBIA
Victoria Nuland, the under-secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department, will retire from her post by the end of the month and teach diplomacy at Columbia University to brainwash the next generation of establishment neocons.
AMERICANS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES WARNED TO TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTION
The U.S. State Department urged American citizens who are abroad to take extra precautions due to the elevated risks of terror attacks and other forms of violence, as Washington provided Israel its full-throated support to continue punishing Palestinians in Gaza after Hamas’s attack earlier this month.